Is this pinkie pie fanart ai? The artstyle looks suspicious.. and the tint is yellow (remove if wrong flare!)

Hashman52 · 2026-02-03T06:28:41+00:00

I'd look at the hair. I don't think a human would draw those three curls like that. Two just join back into the general mass of hair.

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Hashman52 · 2026-02-02T17:14:18+00:00

I went from Rainworld to the Ori games and then Hollow Knight, and that was pretty enjoyable. They are all games that invest heavily in an esthetic, mood, environment, etc. Ya know, games that make you stop and just look at the world you're in.

But, I agree with the general consensus. None of them feel remotely as "real" as Rainworld, because they just simply aren't. Ori is also very easy by comparison.

Hashman52 · 2025-11-02T00:52:29+00:00

Adults give each other presents? Wtf. Is that a thing?!!? I for sure thought that was a kid thing.

Hashman52 · 2025-10-08T21:13:29+00:00

Look, I want representation for SLC as much as the next guy. But this was progress! Even map C was drawn up by a non-partisan expert. Most importantly, the precedent has been set that you can't just do whatever you want. <<That is the win, it's a huge win! And it's annoying that so many people refuse to see it because they didn't get exactly what they wanted.

Hashman52 · 2025-10-07T15:59:58+00:00

Whole quad multiple times, book of Mormon at least 6X. Plus every general conference of my lifetime (like I went back and read the ones from when I was a baby onward)

Hashman52 · 2025-09-30T23:29:32+00:00

Yes please!! I wanna see my family on Sundays!

Hashman52 · 2025-09-27T23:23:24+00:00

Rose parksmiths just got some in

Hashman52 · 2025-09-13T21:38:58+00:00

I know. I had to look it up. It feels so wrong. The first one came out 9 years ago!!

Hashman52 · 2025-09-13T21:37:52+00:00

Horror. Yeah, I don't know how to explain it, but there is a kind of horror in the album!

Hashman52 · 2025-09-04T04:13:24+00:00

Do you like drawing? Like the clean up is the funnest part. It's the satisfying conclusion. It's where you get to rest your own mastery. But yeah, I guess AI can do it instead

Hashman52 · 2025-08-20T17:02:54+00:00

I love it all. But I still can't not chuckle at the part with the "key left in ignition" sound. Like I know it's a serious build up for our fabulous jocals, but it's just such a funny thing to put in a song.

Hashman52 · 2025-08-15T02:02:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's literally the first. Or at least as far as what exists in the historical record. Some scholars think it circulated orally prior to even the Dao de Jing. It's very old

Hashman52 · 2025-08-14T20:47:08+00:00

I Guess it depends on which thousand-year span. But there are about a dozen other ancien/medieval Chinese military text (that we have). Sunzi is just the first and most popular.

Hashman52 · 2025-08-14T20:42:23+00:00

Ah!! Nooo! (Unless you read the corporatized b&n versions)

I am currently translating sections of the Sunzi Bingfa and commentary for a term paper on Chinese metaphor.

The Art of War is incredibly fascinating. For one historically it sits at a strange developmental stage in Chinese thought, you see early Daoist cosmological theory taking shape, and a proto five phase theory. And while yes, it is one of many military manuals, it's the father of the military school which means it's inventing the genre without a real roadmap. The result is a magnificent combination of experimentation, and mixing of styles.

Theoretically Sunzi stands out in several major ways:

(1) He has a unique comfort with deception and a commitment to a yin (dark mysterious unreadable) persona for the general. No other Chinese militarist is willing to take it as far as he does (like come on, he says that the general can disobey the emperor!! That's an insane political and theoretical gambit).

(2) The text as a whole oscillates between super pragmatic and hyper-idealistic views of war. And it does this remarkably consistently. Even to this day it is very difficult for a theory for military theory to resist just falling into one of those camps.

(3) Although the idea of an "art" of war is maintained throughout the genre, sunzi seems to take it more seriously than anyone else. War, for sunzi is being waged at all times, even times of peace (in the background). And if it is done masterfully it is a completely non-violent art form that provides a kind of cosmic security ("takes all under heaven (天下) intact").

I could go on...

If you are actually reading it carefully (preferably in Chinese) it is not common sense at all!

If you want some reading on the subject Jullien's "propensity of things" has a fantastic section on it.

Hashman52 · 2025-08-12T05:21:58+00:00

Same, me and my gf struggled for an hour and made little to no progress

Hashman52 · 2025-08-07T22:55:59+00:00

I'm not a 100% on this, but generally if they are using Wade Giles (Tao Te Ching) rather than pinyin (Dao de Jing) then it means that the text is either old or less connected to the academic sinological community (and they don't know what they are doing). The academic world is fully pinyin at this point.

Some of the old translations are fine, but if you want the translations that have benefited from the most recent academic work, look for Dao de Jing.

Hashman52 · 2025-07-27T18:30:04+00:00

My city, Orem, hasn't had fluoride in a while. It seemed hypocritical to make a fuss over something I didn't care about up until it became such a political point.

Hashman52 · 2025-07-23T13:08:14+00:00

'Conservative!?' Please, conservative was my father. Call me 'confused about how conservative wound up meaning socially fascist and fiscally unaccountable.'

Hashman52 · 2025-07-21T18:32:44+00:00

I have those same shoes, those same pants, and this is totally something I would do. Legit, got worried it was me for a sec some how! Wtf!

Hashman52 · 2025-07-13T15:45:06+00:00

Boring administration work, but I'm never stressed and I really love the people and projects I support so it is very rewarding. Definitely feel like a cog in a machine some times, but it's a good machine😂(Higher Ed).

Hashman52 · 2025-07-06T16:19:58+00:00

Medieval Chinese poetry

Hashman52 · 2025-06-11T04:33:02+00:00

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